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This chapter describes tools you need to have installed in your CentOS

workstation before using CentOS Artwork Repository.

\section{Subversion}

Subversion is a version control system, which allows you to keep old

versions of files and directories (usually source code), keep a log of

who, when, and why changes occurred, etc., like CVS, RCS or

SCCS.\footnote{More documentation about Subversion and its tools,

including detailed usage explanations of the svn, svnadmin, svnserve

and svnlook programs, historical background, philosophical approaches

and reasonings, etc., can be found at

\url{http://svnbook.red-bean.com/.}} 

To install Subversion client tools in your workstation you can use the

following command:

\begin{quote}

yum install subversion

\end{quote}

\section{Inkscape}

Inkscape is a GUI editor for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format

drawing files, with capabilities similar to Adobe Illustrator,

CorelDraw, Visio, etc. Inkscape features include versatile shapes,

bezier paths, freehand drawing, multiline text, text on path, alpha

blending, arbitrary affine transforms, gradient and pattern fills,

node editing, SVG-to-PNG export, grouping, layers, live clones, and

more.

Note that Inkscape is not inside CentOS Distribution, so you need to

configure a third party repository like RPMForge or EPEL to install

Inkscape.  Installation of a third party repositories inside CentOS

Distribution is described in the following URL:

\begin{quote}

\url{http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories}

\end{quote}

Once you have configured the third party repository you can install

Inkscape using the following command:

\begin{quote}

yum install inkscape

\end{quote}

\section{ImageMagick}

ImageMagick is a free software suite for the creation, modification

and display of bitmap images. It can read, convert and  write images

in a large variety of formats. Images can be cropped, colors can be

changed, various effects can be applied, images can  be rotated  and

combined,  and text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves can

be added to images and stretched and rotated.

To install ImageMagick in your workstation you can run the following

command:

\begin{quote}

yum install ImageMagick

\end{quote}

\section{Netpbm}

Netpbm is a toolkit for manipulation of graphic images, including

conversion of images between a variety of different formats.  There

are over 300 separate tools in the package including converters for

about 100 graphics formats.

To install Netpbm in your workstation you can run the following

command:

\begin{quote}

yum install netpbm\{-progs\}

\end{quote}

\section{Syslinux}

Syslinux is a suite of bootloaders, currently supporting DOS FAT

filesystems, Linux ext2/ext3 filesystems (EXTLINUX), PXE network boots

(PXELINUX), or ISO 9660 CD-ROMs (ISOLINUX).  It also includes a tool,

MEMDISK, which loads legacy operating systems from these media.  The

package \texttt{syslinux} provides the programs \texttt{ppmtolss16}

and \texttt{lss16toppm} which are used to produce Anaconda Prompt

images. The \texttt{ppmtolss16} Perl program also includes the file

format specification.

To install Syslinux in your workstation you can run the following

command:

\begin{quote}

yum install syslinux

\end{quote}

\section{GNU Image Manipulation Program}

GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) is used to manipulate images

inside CentOS Artwork Repository.  

To install GIMP in your workstation you can run the following command:

\begin{quote}

yum install gimp

\end{quote}

\section{GNU Core Utilities}

The GNU core utilities are a set of tools commonly used in shell

scripts.

To install the GNU core utilities in your workstation you can run the

following command:

\begin{quote}

yum install core-utils

\end{quote}

\section{\LaTeX}

\LaTeX\ is a document preparation system implemented as a macro

package for Donald E.  Knuth's \TeX\ typesetting program. The \LaTeX\

command typesets a file of text using the \TeX\ program and the LaTeX

Macro package for \TeX.  To be more specific, it processes an input

file containing the text of a document with interspersed commands that

describe how the text should be formatted. 

To install \LaTeX\ in your workstation you can run the following

command:

\begin{quote}

yum install tetex-\{latex,fonts,doc,xdiv,dvips\}

\end{quote}